How Bryan Cranston Ended Up a Suspect in the Murder of a Chef

What happens in Daytona Beach sometimes follows you around the country.

Aside from playing a murderous drug dealer in Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston is generally a normal dude who enjoys things like touring around America on his motorcycle with his brother or visiting nudist colonies. Oh, and he may have killed a guy.

Cranston was on The Tonight Show last night promoting his new memoir when he told a story from the 1970s in which he was suspected of murder. Cranston and his brother were driving around America, picking up odd jobs in random cities, and one of their stops included a restaurant in Daytona Beach. Cranston admitted to hating the chef—a man named Peter Wong—and said that he and the wait staff had joked about what it would be like to kill him. You know where this story is going.

Wong ended up dead, and his murder coincided with the Cranston brothers leaving town on their motorcycles at the end of the high season. The timeline of Wong's death made the Cranston bros. suspects, and cops were actively looking for the two, who were in the Carolinas by the time police suspected them.

Cranston never really explains to Fallon how he proved his innocence, and frankly, I would have liked an explanation. Cranston didn't exactly tell us his alibi, you know? And he didn't really deny killing Wong either! How can we really know if this is only a cutesy late-night story or a very bold public admission? The answer better not be in the book. I'm not buying a book just so Bryan Cranston can prove to me he's not a murderer. Is Peter Wong's killer still out there? That shitty chef deserves justice.

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